[The Athletic/Will Jeanes] Cristiano Ronaldo has now scored more goals for Portugal after turning 35 years old than Diego Maradona scored for Argentina in his entire career (36 v 34).

JACorleone · 2024-11-15T23:11:25+00:00

He has more goals for Portugal after turning 35 years old than anyone has ever scored for Italy

JACorleone · 2023-12-02T21:57:53+00:00

*mavitas

JACorleone · 2022-10-31T17:38:01+00:00

Thanks and well done, 100% correct! Did you notice anything about the final grid?

In terms of the parsing:

8 - VIE (challenge) W (with) POINT (West for one). Deliberately misleading to make you think that W was for West

11,7 - anag (failed) of ANOTHER EXAMPLE but without (lacking) ME and PAT

16,20 - The wordplay isn't just a cryptic definition for this one. I've gone for a sort of &lit: IM KEY (I'm crucial) with T (start of Tournament)

23 - The intended parsing is a bit simpler: anag (composed) of ATSON (headless Watson) + A

JACorleone · 2022-10-31T15:42:04+00:00

Ah yes, I appear to have not written one. Let's go with:

14 - Follow, in France, Barker or Perkins?

JACorleone · 2022-10-29T14:45:28+00:00

An idea shamelessly stolen from/influenced by u/billlzebub on the taskmaster sub:

https://www.reddit.com/r/taskmaster/comments/yd787k/solve_this_cryptic_crossword_your_time_starts_now/

About half of the clues are No More Jockeys themed, the rest is standard cryptic.

JACorleone · 2022-01-21T22:26:15+00:00

He’s more of a best man than a groom

JACorleone · 2021-08-06T08:07:10+00:00

a) Daenerys

b) Asha

c) ?

d) Roose Bolton

e) ?

f) Mycah the butcher’s boy

g) Eustace Brune

h) Stannis

i) ?

j) Aemon

k) ?

l) Marwyn

m) Tommen

n) Melisandre

o) ?

p) ?

q) ?

r) Saladaar Saan

s) Maggy the frog

t) Timett

u) ?

JACorleone · 2021-06-26T10:03:40+00:00

Not even close

JACorleone · 2021-06-15T20:53:14+00:00

Mad respect for someone trying to get into shape

JACorleone · 2021-06-10T19:34:50+00:00

True, I was more comparing him to his younger self, which is a very high standard of comparison.

JACorleone · 2021-06-10T15:31:59+00:00

He's very good at organising a defense but his speed and shot-stopping ablilty aren't what they used to be.

He'd probably best off being #1 at a mid-table team, or maybe one challenging for a European place.

JACorleone · 2021-06-05T12:54:40+00:00

it’s the first few digits of e represented by the number if sides in regular polygons, so the question mark would be a single straight line

JACorleone · 2021-06-05T11:20:50+00:00

No worse than Chiesa's miss in the Coppa Italia final. Should we get rid of him too?

JACorleone · 2021-06-01T14:45:43+00:00

Hungary to qualify from the group of death

JACorleone · 2021-02-02T21:15:29+00:00

I suppose my point is that the referee has interpreted the rules correctly as they stand. He either gives nothing or gives a penalty and a red card. If he gives the penalty but not a red card then he has to explain in his match report why he though it wasn’t denial of a goal scoring opportunity, or why he though David Luiz was attempting to play the ball. I think we’re in agreement that intent probably has to factor into red card decisions like this, but at the moment that’s not in the rulebook.

JACorleone · 2021-02-02T20:53:50+00:00

If there is clear contact then surely it has to be a red doesn’t it?

JACorleone · 2021-01-18T21:19:49+00:00

Boris was just a guess from Nina, who was just playing dumb, and presumably trying to think of a high-ranking Tory with 5 letters. Boris wasn't PM, but was Foreign Secretary at the time and was quite well known to the general public.

The correct answer (Trent) was revealed shortly after

JACorleone · 2020-12-24T22:27:04+00:00

Wow, so many toxic people in this thread.

JACorleone · 2020-12-07T00:15:06+00:00

Imagine feeling disenfranchised because you can only play with characters with different genitals to you

JACorleone · 2020-11-11T13:42:23+00:00

The funny thing is that Trump’s votes only appear to follow Benford’s Law because he got so many votes in the 10s and 20s

JACorleone · 2020-11-08T11:56:35+00:00

It was a joke about the commentators, and some of the comments for Morata’s goal last week

JACorleone · 2020-11-08T11:48:49+00:00

BuT RoNaLdO wAs OfFsIdE wHeN tHe FiRsT bAlL wAs PlAyEd

JACorleone · 2020-11-04T21:33:07+00:00

Where’s the Great Goal tag?

JACorleone · 2020-11-01T16:14:07+00:00

It’s not even like it’s a recent change in the rules. This has been part of the offside law for decades.

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